Re: how to generate glib events

[Gorshkov <listsubscriptions oghma on ca>]

My approach to this is to spawn another thread to handle the events
- Create a GAsyncQueue
	g_async_queue_new(void);
- Create the worker thread
- in your watch callback, pack the data you've received into a 
structure, and push it onto the GAsyncQueue
	g_async_queue_push(GAsyncQueue *queue, gpointer data);

- in your worker thread, wait on the queue and process messages, as they 
are received, in order
	while (message = g_async_queue_pop(GAsyncQueue *queue))
	{
		/* do stuff */
	}

Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> Hi All,
> sorry to disturb, but I seem unable to fully grasp this.
>
> I am using glib (not full GTK+) for a server application that needs to 
> listen to multiple sockets/pipes.
> I managed to have the GIOChannels working the way I need them.
> Now I have (in some of the GIOChannel watches) a complete message to be 
> processed.
> In order to serialize processing I would like to avoid processing 
> directly in the watch callback, I would like to "queue" somehow the 
> message and have another "watch" in the main loop to wait on this queue.
> I can do this easily using polling and timeouts, but this would 
> introduce unacceptable delays.
> I'm currently trying to implement this using a pipe and another 
> GIOChannel watching on it.
> Is this the right way to do such a thing?
> Is there another (better) way to do this.
> Can someone point me to the right documentation (possibly some tutorial)?
> Should I implement a new Source  (g_source_new() and all associated 
> paraphernalia)?
> If so: where can I get some example?
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Mauro
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